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Next time customers step into their local Dunkin' for a hot latte, they might notice something a bit different about the chain's coffee cups. For decades, the chain's hot drinks were housed in ...

ALBANY — Those polystyrene clam shell containers for take-home food, Styrofoam cups from restaurants and the countless "packing peanuts" will go the way of plastic grocery bags under a new New York ...

Maine and Maryland are the first states to ban styrofoam containers. Vermont could be next. Other states, and cities, have banned plastic straws and plastic bags. Before this year, no state had passed ...